Read OIB Deputy Project Scientist Brooke Medley’s blog post about the weird flight map path that results from flying around, then over, the South Pole. Credits: NASA/Kate Ramsayer. She writes: Navigating can be tricky at the end of the world. While the mapping software went out of whack crossing over the pole, the actual flight software didn’t miss a beat – IceBridge Mission Scientist John Sonntag programmed it that way, knowing the ice-monitoring flights would need to handle the situation.